单词 | rear rank |
释义 | > as lemmasrear rank 1. Military and Navy. Designating or relating to a division of troops placed or moving as the last in order, or to the deployment of such troops. Frequently as rear rank (also attributive in noun phrases). †rear bataille (in quot. a1500): = rearguard n.1 1. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > position at the back > [adjective] afterOE afterwardOE hinderc1290 hinderera1340 hinda1400 backc1490 reara1500 posterior1578 rearward1581 backwarda1616 hindsome1634 postica1638 averse1646 postern1648 postical1657 reverse1675 aft1711 retrospective1785 hindward1797 retral1822 western1829 postjacent1878 a1500 (?a1325) Otuel & Roland (1935) l. 2109 (MED) Twenty thousand charlys ladde, And also fele roulond hadde In-to the rere batayle. 1623 J. Bingham tr. Xenophon Hist. 114 I will goe and take some of the Reare Companies. 1689 Perfect. Milit. Discipl. (1691) 91 The Rear Ranks of Musketiers make Ready. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Rear-Line, of an Army encamped, is the second Line; it lies about four or five hundred Yards Distant from the first Line. 1796 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry 125 If on a rear division.—That division will be placed... The change will then be made as on a front division. 1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. at Rear front The rear-rank-men stand where the front-rank-men ought to be. 1861 T. E. May Constit. Hist. Eng. (1863) II. viii. 83 The halting rear-rank of their own Tory followers. 1918 Stars & Stripes 19 Apr. 4/2 It remained for a humble rear rank doughboy private..to give it the brand new twist. 1974 T. P. Whitney tr. A. Solzhenitsyn Gulag Archipel. I. i. iv. 167 They were vehement in their rear-line wrath (the most intense patriotism always flourishes in the rear). a1985 P. White With the Jocks (2003) 190 I collected six men, a Bren gun, two Sten guns and three riflemen from the rear section, and handed the Platoon over to Sgt Dickinson. 2002 P. Haythornthwaite Brit. Rifleman 1797–1815 29 When advancing, the rear-rank men passed on the right of the front-rank men, moved ten paces forward, and halted to fire. < as lemmas |
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